This summer, the large-scale retrospective exhibition "Tadao Ando: Challenges" presented at the Shanghai Fosun Art Center has become a phenomenon in Shanghai. Every weekend, the long queues outside the exhibition hall highlight people's love for this exotic architect and lead us to think, why does Tadao Ando set off an aesthetic whirlwind? What kind of thoughts and desires do the people who come to the exhibition want to express their thoughts and desires for life?
In our opinion, whether it is the design of houses, art galleries or churches, In the face of repeated challenges, Ando has always adhered to his values and his quest for freedom. In today's era of rapid consumption, "persistence" and "eternity" are still Ando's most tenacious vitality as an architect. The Pritzker Prize says of Ando, "Using the simplest geometric styles and constantly changing the shape of light, it creates the richest microscopic scene for individual buildings." ”
Over the years, we have been committed to creating a hive city that supports organic growth and sustainable development. The product values behind the Hive City can be said to resonate with Mr. Ando's philosophy - facing the future of the city, meeting the challenges of the city, and carrying a happy experience. Each carefully constructed hive not only has rich industrial resources including Fosun's finance, health, culture, etc., but also has the ability to design and create excellent scenes, relying on the most local culture and landscape, injecting health, vitality and beautiful ingenuity.
At the end of the Tadao Ando Exhibition at Fosun Art Center, we launched a series of theme articles "The Hive Direction: Facing the Future", which reflects the thickness, breadth and depth of the hive, presenting the imagination of the hive city for architecture, nature and social development, and we look forward to adhering to the hive value concept and the unremitting exploration of urban renewal in one challenge after another.
Around the four major industries of "health, happiness, prosperity and intelligent manufacturing", Fosun has brought together many high-quality products and services around the world, and "Hive City" is the bearer of these high-quality "contents". The great success of Ando Exhibition is also the epitome of the successful practice of Fosun Hive's "Hive City + Global Layout" return mission empowerment strategy.
Contributing to the strong cooperation between the Ando Exhibition and fosun Art Center, Fosun Hive Overseas introduced the world-renowned IP of Ando Exhibition into China for the first time, Fosun Art Center docked to create a top exhibition viewing experience, and held 6 cloud salons to invite industry masters to give lectures, leading the audience into the magical world of architecture, understanding Japanese culture, and invited Tadao Ando to hold an online lecture, in addition, Tadao Ando and current curator Takaaki Mizutani shared the interpretation of the exhibition space with the audience in online form. The diversified Fosun ecological cross-brand activities further enhanced the popularity of the exhibition.
Extending the influence of Ando, the world's top IP, Fosun Hive continues to expand the scene creation. With the conclusion of the Ando exhibition at Fosun Art Center in Shanghai, the 15-day Suzhou "Tadao Ando ANDO BOX Exhibition" has been followed. The Suzhou "Tadao Ando ANDO BOX Exhibition" hosted by forte Luxi Graceland Natural Life Aesthetics Museum, a new Internet celebrity punch card in Suzhou under the Forte Industrial Development Group, will last until June 20. It is understood that Fuxian Lake Project, another benchmark project of Forte Industrial Development Group, will also cooperate with Tadao Ando to create another classic art center for Fosun under the unique natural ecology of Fuxian Lake.
Today, with the rapid development of cities, people are tired of the oppression and boredom brought by steel forests. The connection with nature became the greatest desire of urban people. From Ando's works, the audience is most likely to resonate with the architect's inner desire for harmony between architecture and nature.
Many of Ando's works show the challenge of architecture in that era: people gave up their individuality and lost their connection with nature for the comfort of living. In Tadao Ando's work, concrete is just a carrier, blending into the surrounding environment, waiting for his master to give the building a soul.
The terms development and environment have been a trade-off relationship for the past three decades, but there is a growing awareness that sustainable development must be based on adequate ecological protection and the establishment of a full integration of cities and nature. In recent years, more and more works have emerged, and the architecture incorporates full consideration of ecology and the environment.
For example, foreground in Nanjing Hongshan New Town to build a "finance + science and technology" composite hive. Thinking about the problem that architecture and nature should coexist in harmony, we strive to create a "vertical forest". The "vertical forest" adopted by the project is a kind of architectural form that combines high-rise buildings with natural trees, and in the vertical space of the building, it makes full use of various different heights and selects the appropriate plant types in order to achieve the role of enriching the façade level of the building. The flaky forest is three-dimensional, the reinforced concrete becomes soft, and the person in the building returns to nature.
The biggest theme of this exhibition is "Challenge", and Ando hopes to let everyone see that although he has many failures, he is still full of expectations to meet the challenge. For Tadao Ando, this exhibition is not only to review his life, but also hopes that this exhibition can awaken the audience's inner idea of "not setting limits on themselves, surpassing themselves, and constantly challenging".
In our current stage, the same people have a new meditation on what is a good life and a good product, whether it is the cross-border products brought about by the diversified and composite trend of thought, or the harmonious coexistence under people's needs for nature, which is the driving force for the changes of the times that we need to face.
The hive city, in the face of this change and motivation, proposes a solution. Fuxing Real Estate development is organically combining Fosun's diversified industrial ecology, global organizational capabilities, its own real estate construction capabilities and industrial operation capabilities. While helping the high-quality development of urban industries, it will continue to broaden the boundaries of a better life for Forte families.